Lightburn and Co.

Lightburn is an Australian auto manufacturing company, entered the passenger car market in the mid-1960s.

Lightburn & Co was an Adelaide-based business established by Harold Lightburn in the suburb of Camden Park. The company initially manufactured household goods such as washing machines and small industrial products such as concrete mixers. In the 1960s Lightburn purchased a small sports car already under development in the UK, the Frisky, and from this developed the Zeta - a small car with a fibreglass body. The National Motor Museum holds two examples of these cars, a Sports model and a Sedan model, in the collection. These cars were sold between 1963 and 1966 with only approximately 400 cars produced.

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Lightburn is an Australian auto manufacturing company, entered the passenger car market in the mid-1960s.

Lightburn & Co was an Adelaide-based business established by Harold Lightburn in the suburb of Camden Park. The company initially manufactured household goods such as washing machines and small industrial products such as concrete mixers. In the 1960s Lightburn purchased a small sports car already under development in the UK, the Frisky, and from this developed the Zeta - a small car with a fibreglass body. The National Motor Museum holds two examples of these cars, a Sports model and a Sedan model, in the collection. These cars were sold between 1963 and 1966 with only approximately 400 cars produced.

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